Will an i7-6700k support 2 GTX 980 ti SLI?

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I need to know if my i7-6700k CPU will support a Zotac GeForce GTX 980 Ti 6GB AMP! Extreme Video Card with 2-Way SLI. I need it for gaming and I ask this because on Game Debate, it said that my CPU will bottleneck with these cards and it wants me to upgrade to a $1,000 dollar processor and I am not doing that so can someone confirm?
 
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It will work no problem, and really if u didnt want to spend $1000, the other options are the 5930k with 40 lanes at $580, or 5820k woth 28 lanes at $380, or something like an E5 1620 V3 with 40 lanes at $300, but then paying $200 for the motherboard. Not worth it, and your current setup should work just fine. The 6700k has 16 lanes, so each card will run each at x8, which will not hurt performance at all and the cpu has more than enough power to keep up
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It will work no problem, and really if u didnt want to spend $1000, the other options are the 5930k with 40 lanes at $580, or 5820k woth 28 lanes at $380, or something like an E5 1620 V3 with 40 lanes at $300, but then paying $200 for the motherboard. Not worth it, and your current setup should work just fine. The 6700k has 16 lanes, so each card will run each at x8, which will not hurt performance at all and the cpu has more than enough power to keep up
 
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Theres nothing on the market that would be better then the 6700k, its even considered overkill for gaming. I wouldnt even say 5930k or 5820k are any better of options if its just for gaming. I can understand if it was something like rendering or video editing, then I would recommend the other processors to utilize the additional cores they present. As he mentioned above running both cards on x8/x8 will be fine. You wont need more lanes then what the z170 offers to run 2 video cards.
 
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Absolutely not. The only time the 6700k will EVER be overloaded by a 980 Ti SLI is when the game/program itself runs highly resource-intensive mathematics, like simulating the Solar System or other physics (Usually meaning that FPS has no hold in the first place and keeping up with real time [in-game/program] speed is more important)
 
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So are you saying no it won't be a problem or no it won't work because everyone else says it'll run fine
 
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Yeah I was aiming for the "overkill PC" anyway as I am planning on building a new PC soon (within the next year or so) and I wanted to go as overkill as possible without it being over 3,000. Thanks for your answer.
 
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